BOOKS by Thomas Van Nortwick

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1	Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Hero's Journey more books like this by Thomas Van Nortwick Exploring the hero's journey as a metaphor for spiritual evolution, this book offers a close, original reading of three seminal works of epic poetry: the Epic of Gilgamesh. Homer's Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid. An excellent introduction to the central themes and historical development of the epic form. Somewhere I Have Never Travelled is also a ... see all copies from $4.47! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship more books like this by Judith P Hallett (Editor), Thomas Van Nortwick (Editor) Scholars in modern languages and literatures have enthusiastically embraced the use of the "personal voice," the explicitly autobiographical performance within the act of criticism. However on both sides of the Atlantic, venerable traditions of Classical scholarship, among them, unusually rigid taboos against speaking of oneself in print, have ... see all copies from $2.56! new only from $13.65! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Oedipus: The Meaning of a Masculine Life more books like this by Thomas Van Nortwick, Karen H Tanner, Thomas Nortwick Drawing on ancient mythical patterns and modern psychology, this book explores the rich and mysterious interplay between life and art. Thomas Van Nortwick examines two masterpieces of Greek tragic poetry, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, as symbolic representations of the masculine life cycle. Tracing Oedipus's painful voyage of self ... see all copies from $2.94! new only from $5.17! \| first editions
4	Imagining Men: Ideals of Masculinity in Ancient Greek Culture more books like this by Thomas Van Nortwick This book examines how the ancient Greeks understood the meaning of a man's life. Exploring models for masculinity as they appear in major works of Greek literature, this book combines literary, historical, and psychological insights to examine how the ancient Greeks understood the meaning of a man's life. The thoughts and actions of Achilles, ... see all copies from $41.76! new only from $41.76! \| SVS
5	Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Second Self and the Hero's Journey in Ancient Epic more books like this by Thomas Van Nortwick Exploring the hero's journey as a metaphor for spiritual evolution in The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid, and focusing in particular on the relationship of the hero to one or more "second selves," or alter egos, Van Nortwick demonstrates how the poems address central and enduring truths about human life: that the exertion of ... see all copies from $4.71! first editions
6	The Unknown Odysseus: Alternate Worlds in Homer's Odyssey more books like this by Thomas Van Nortwick "The Unknown Odysseus" is a study of how Homer creates two versions of his hero, one who is the triumphant protagonist of the revenge plot, and another, more subversive, anonymous figure, whose various personae exemplify an entirely different set of assumptions about the world through which each hero moves and the shape and meaning of human life. ... see all copies from $59.08! new only from $59.08!

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